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Playbill.com offers a guide to waiting in line for free tickets to Shakespeare in the Park.
Alice Lee, who originated the role of Heather Duke in the dark comedy Heathers: The Musical, competed June 29 on the ABC TV show "Rising Star."
The War of the Roses, the stage adaptation of Warren Adler's best-selling novel novel of the same name, will play Broadway in the 2015-16 season, producers announced June 30.
In honor of Pride, Playbill.com looks at the portrayal of same-sex parents and families onstage throughout the years.
Levi Kreis, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical for his Broadway debut, playing Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet, joined the company of the Broadway revival …
The St. Louis Artists' Guild, which was once home to performances by a young Tennessee Williams, will present the acclaimed playwright's rarely performed play Stairs to the Roof, acc…
The Drama League presents Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead, co-creators of the online web series "Submissions Only," in its Up Close series June 30 at 7 PM.
Casa Valentina, the Tony-nominated new play by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein about an upstate colony where heterosexual men dress as women, ends its run on Broadway June 29. &…
The Geffen Playhouse continues its ongoing presentations of works by Neil LaBute with the dark comedy Reasons to Be Pretty.
Casting has been announced for the Chicago-premiere production of Conor McPherson's The Night Alive at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
Writer and actress Zoe Kazan sits down with Playbill.com to discuss theatre, film and feminism.
Tracy Hobson, executive director of the Center for Anti-Violence Education, talks with Playbill.com about the organization's four decades of work.
Women's Project Theater, the non-profit company dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, has begun a national search for a new artistic director.
The administrative offices inside Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center were vandalized with spray paint spelling out obscene messages, the New York Times reports.
Northlight Theatre has announced the casting for the first three productions of its 2014-15 season: The Commons of Pensacola, The Mousetrap and White Guy on the Bus.
The boundary-pushing downtown theatre troupe The Amoralists stage The Gyre, a repertory production of two world-premiere dramas by Derek Ahonen and Mark Roberts, beginning June 26.
Manhattan Theatre Club presents The Lion, a new autobiographical solo musical written and performed by singer/songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, officially opening June 26 following previews …
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods, which made its world premiere at the Old Globe in 1986, will be presented in a re-imagined production at th…
Mary Bridget Davies, who earned a Tony nomination for her performance as rock legend Janis Joplin in A Night With Janis Joplin, will be featured performing rock songs in Summer at the Pasade…
Excerpts from a new musical about Fannie Lou Hamer, a Civil Rights activist, will be presented at Carnegie Hall this fall.
The complete creative team has been announced for the upcoming production of Phoenix, Scott Organ's dark comedy about a one-night stand that will star Julia Stiles and James Wirt.&n…
Excerpts from Carmen, a new Afro-Cuban musical in development, will be presented as part of The Guggenheim’s "Works & Process" June 28 at 7:30 PM.
Writer-performer Charles Busch will bring his solo show to 54 Below next month.
Manhattan Theatre Club will present the world-premiere production of Richard Greenberg's familial drama The Swing of the Sea Off-Broadway next spring. The company has also announced cast…
Sir Ian McKellen, a Tony Award-winning actor, has received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University.
